Spring break this year was a blast. We had activities for everyday and the kids enjoyed all the fun to be had. We started off the week going to the Texas Tech Museum. The kids loved all the dinosaur bones and the exhibit that showed all the insects from the area. We have big bugs here in Texas. They also had a craft room to make snow globes and color your own hats and make place mats and a lot of other crafts. We spent hours learning about history and culture here.
Our next adventure landed us in Amarillo, about two hours from Lubbock. We went to the Zoo. A lot of the animals were local animals that you would find in the area, but they had some fun exotic animals as well.
Jacob loved the monkeys. We got to see them grooming themselves and eat the bugs they got from each others fur.
Meagan Had so much fun looking at the snakes. She is obsessed with snakes. She wants one so bad and unfortunately I have told her she has to wait til she lives on her own.....sorry kid.
I didn't get a picture of it and I wish I had but the lions were amazing. The male lion gave us a huge lion roar. I felt like we were right there in the wild. My favorite was the tigers. It has been a life long dream to have a white tiger of my very own. Until that time seeing them in a zoo will have to do.
After we walked the zoo the kids wanted to play and the very cool play park. In the summer they even have places through out the zoo you can cool down and get wet. It was a little to early for that this time so no water fun for us, but it would have been fun.
The next adventure was about two hours away in Clovis, New Mexico. The model train museum.
They had rooms and rooms of model trains from around the world. Each set had a button or two to push and you could watch them go around. The favorite was the button that let the train whistle blow. After about a hundred or so pushes the parents had to step in and say, "Lets move on shall we."
The cool thing was they had the history of the train along with the model trains. They showed how they built train tracks and the life of conductors. They had a room showing the living quarters. Lets just say they had to have been really small back then cause the size of their bed was so small that a child would have difficulty sleeping on it without falling off. The beds were soooo small.
They had train models from Australia and England and from all over. They were very intricate and historically correct, depending on the era it was from.
We had a blast learning all about the history of trains and model trains.
The week went by so quickly. We had so much fun learning and spending time together. Next year we will defiantly have to plan some more fun activities to do.
